Other questions and a used book

After two years, the artist Fernanda J. Carregado presents the continuation of her work “The sea by car ”, an autobiographical project in which she was accompanied by 6 photographers to support this experience. She takes up this theme with a lot of perspective, a continuation of the work entitled : “Other issues and a used book ”, issues that were left unfinished in order to close such an intimate and significant story for the artist.

He exhibits a work where he focuses on life issues according to his personal reflections, but while remaining open to many interpretations considering all these universal themes where viewers can identify.

Another five new photographer artists have collaborated on this project, bringing the total to 11 artists who are part of this story, all of them important to weaving this project.

The artist invites you to learn about other questions that you may perhaps ask yourself and feel like you are walking alongside her in these thoughts that she has prepared in a used book.

To anyone who wants to

be better every day.

Sincere reflections, it seems to me that he stops looking at his navel, to delve deeper inside, and really be honest and recognize the truth of his desires, some achievable, and others that are not so much... but that nothing happens if they are not achieved. _'Nothing important happens', if we recognize our failures, faults, we must be modest, feel and be sincere, be empathetic, kind, with our differences, and not demand more than is possible to fulfill, and thus we avoid feeling frustrated. _You should not demand too much of yourself, most of the time it is absurd. _Ideals very common for many of us, but very complicated to carry out. _It is time to be honest, in order to recognize the differences, and that the simple, without a doubt, is what makes you grow the most and helps you recognize... _Project, which has 11 light sculpture pieces, seen through the lens of 10 other artist photographers. Also interesting are the textile works, complementary to the sculptures.

Nando Arguelles

Exhibition curator

July, 2024

Other issues in the pipeline

1.-We laugh out loud

Letting our feelings and emotions flourish is a responsibility. Laughing at ourselves is necessary to look at ourselves with love. We have the obligation to feel, cry, laugh, get angry and be sad if necessary. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. Forget about people who want to cheer you up, worry you or try to change an emotion you need to feel. It is very useful to know what you need and not let anyone influence you.

JUST TALK TO THE WIND

Ilse Van Gogh

Hahnemühle Matt Fiber Photo Paper

Digital photography - Size: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece I Anahí and her hat

Details of the ceramic sculpture Anahí and her hat.

2.-Make friends with change

Trying to give up the fight for something that no longer has to be in your life. When we create a private war exclusively for our little world, we don't understand that in the end we always lose. If you let go, something better comes along. I know! It's easy to say, I know! When you're in your private war, you don't want to let go of the fight. You keep your blindness, you just want it to be how you expect it to be, which is foolishness. You'll let go of that blindness when you want, no one can tell you what to do, it's your exclusive fight. Changes are the desire to grow, change, improve yourself and your environment. Make friends with the idea that things will be as they should be, trying to do only what you have to do and let the change appear.

Lucia Villar

Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth Photo Paper

Digital photography - Size: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece II Lia's headdress

Detail of black clay piece Lía's headdress

3.- Extraordinary defects

Knowing which defects to change and which not to. Only change what doesn't let you be happy and look kindly at the rest. If I look closely at myself I will find things I don't like about myself. It is important to look at yourself with love and try to accept some defects that do not change in us over the years. There are defects that must remain, we must let go a little and relax the idea of thinking that we must become impeccable. Of course we will change! But I think the smart thing is to change the defects that limit us and laugh a little at the rest. Be comfortable under our skin and understand that we must talk to ourselves throughout our lives. If you want to fight with yourself just try to be unbeatable, but you will never win the war. If you want to fight with the rest of the world try to please humanity, it never rains to everyone's liking, that is why you will also be defeated.

Fernanda J. Carregado

Judith Borobio embossed paper collaboration

Hahnemühle Photo Rag untextured photographic paper.

Digital photography - Size: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece III Mara's headdress

Details of porcelain sculpture Mara's headdress.

4.-Simple things
Don't lose your wonder at the simple things in life, live gratefully. That modest part where you don't need to do anything other than stop and contemplate and that we shouldn't overlook. A hot shower, a sunny afternoon, a soft bed, a piece of bread. Be grateful for the simple things, enjoy things that you think are there because they should be, stop taking them for granted, because that normality can bring out your most ungrateful side.

David Burbano

Title: Pain

Matt Fiber Photo Paper 200 G/m2

Digital photography intervened with spray paint. Size: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece IV Peter and his hat

Detail of a porcelain piece, Pedro and his hat

5.-The kind part

Look at people with kind eyes, don't take sides and make it your own, understand other positions to learn. Look at the nice side of the people you meet, look at the good side, practice being kind with your gaze. Neutralize your opinion and get out of your position. You will grow more by seeing things from another point of view, rather than just from your own. It is very good that we look differently, that there are many different opinions, so we can try to understand each other and enrich our vision of things.

Antonio Morales

Title: Flora

Fujifilm Silk Photo Paper

Digital photography - Size: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece V The headdress of Zebensui

Details of ceramic piece Zebensui's headdress

To my great aunts

Summers in Buenos Aires in Lanús, my great-aunts' house, lifting tiles looking for worms and playing in the backyard. They made me tea with powdered milk and salt crackers for a snack, the two seamstresses, in their kitchen the Singer pedal sewing machines and denim fabrics with which they made me some crafts. My aunt Esther always asked me, do you want me to draw something for you? She would draw me faces of women with long eyelashes and hairstyles from the 50s, pretty faces that were in fashion when she was young and that she would scribble repeatedly to entertain myself. The emotional thing about those summers that vanished are those images embroidered in my mind to this day, without realizing it those women with hairstyles from the 50s are still alive for me and so are my great-aunts.

These embroideries inspired by them carry vessels on their heads, a task that was assigned to women before there was running water in the houses. They carried drinks and food from one place to another in this way with a padded cloth ring that was placed on top of the head that served to support and cushion heavy weights. On this support they placed baskets, cauldrons, jugs and other objects that required perfect balance, so they could have their arms free to be able to carry more things with them.

We continue to put things on our heads, currently hats and headdresses on special occasions, it is no longer a primary need but a mere adornment, these pieces that I have dedicated several years to making represented a progression of something very intimate and personal, helping me in difficult times, using them as an escape that finally resulted in this compendium of ideas entitled THE SEA BY CAR and added to this OTHER ISSUES AND A USED BOOK.

This union of the 50s, of my experiences through hats from 2016 until today, this is already a heavy feminine task that was to carry water on the head through a bun, the sum of these three issues is amalgamated in these pieces embroidered in esteem for my great-aunts.

Fernanda J. Carregado July, 2024

Jugs on the head

We are so used to having nothing more to do than turn on the tap to get water and have the opportunity to choose whether we want it cold or hot that we have a hard time thinking about the thousands of years in which this luxury did not exist. Water was an absolutely essential resource that people had to go and find wherever there was: a spring, a river, a well or a fountain. It was not only necessary for drinking but also for cooking, washing, or putting out a fire. Today, people still carry pots on their heads in many places that lack running water, such as Eritrea, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Angola, Chad. Be grateful for simple things like a shower in the morning, be grateful for simple things that life gives us.

Conclusions

I find artistic production essential to dialogue with my emotions, and it also serves my need to communicate them to others. This is the best place to create what I have created surrounded by companions. I protect these moments because in memories you build a better future from experience. Art is the highest form of faith and hope because you can turn your thoughts into action. It is an opportunity to know yourself through experimenting with materials and seeing the synergy between them and you.

Acknowledgements

Mara Correa Benitez. Ilse Van Gogh. Lucia Villar. David Burbano. Anahí Ortiz. Tejeira Antonio Morales. Judith Borobio. Lía Urdaneta. Zebensui Morales Galvàn.

To my great-aunts Esther and Ñata.

To the coincidence that allowed me to cross paths with them.